Recovering a deleted file from the git repository, after a commit, is not complicated if you know the right commands and method for doing so. The process takes 3 steps:

• Identify deleted files
• Find commit information in repo about the deleted files
• Restore the file

List all files that have been deleted from a git repository:

git log --diff-filter=D --summary | grep delete

If you know the exact filename of the deleted file you can skip this step.

List information about a particular filename that has been deleted from a git repository:

git log -- [deleted-filename]

Restore a file that has been deleted from a git repository. You need to find the last (or a specific) commit (before the file was deleted):

git rev-list -n 1 HEAD -- [deleted-filename]

Now that you have the last commit, check out the repository at the commit BEFORE the file was deleted:

git checkout <commit-number> -- [deleted-filename]

That is it. Your deleted file has been recovered as a new file to the current repo version.